Permission has been granted to appeal a recent ruling by the Court of Appeal regarding the NLA’s proposed web end user licensing scheme in the UK / Meltwater Group and PRCA

London, 7 November 2011: Meltwater Group and the PRCA welcome the decision by the UK Supreme Court to grant permission to appeal a recent ruling handed down by the Court of Appeal regarding the NLA’s proposed web end user licensing scheme in the UK.

Since 2009 Meltwater and the PRCA have stood alone challenging the NLA’s licensing scheme both in the Courts and in the Copyright Tribunal. If unchallenged the scheme will increase costs to Meltwater customers and all users of commercial media monitoring services, many of whom are PRCA members.

Meltwater Acquires blogsearch leader, IceRocket Inc., to Extend Leadership in Social Media Intelligence

The Meltwater Group, one of the world’s leading online media intelligence companies, today announced the acquisition of IceRocket, a top social search engine.
Together, the companies will provide public relations, marketing, communications and advertising professionals with the most comprehensive set of tools for monitoring, analysing and engaging in relevant conversations across social channels. All of IceRocket’s employees will join Meltwater.
Meltwater has grown to a $100 million company by delivering online news and social media monitoring and search engine marketing solutions. The company has 57 offices around the world serving more than 20,000 customers. IceRocket is an advanced real-time search engine that crawls over 200 million blogs, and an array of tweets, news, and videos that are each profiled, categorised and ranked for accurate results.
IceRocket offers market-leading blog search options for identifying trends, influencers, shared links and popular topics. IceRocket will continue to operate as a standalone search engine while its technology will be integrated with the Meltwater Buzz product, creating the most comprehensive and engaging social media intelligence platform on the market today.
“The acquisition of IceRocket gives us access to one of the richest sources of social media in the market,” said Jorn Lyseggen, chief executive officer and founder of Meltwater Group. (pictured)  “We arm our customers with sophisticated tools for mining social media for business insights, and this requires high quality sources. IceRocket helps Meltwater secure an enviable leadership position in the social media intelligence space. This acquisition represents an important step toward achieving our goal of generating $100 million in social media business within three years.”
“Since its launch in 2004, IceRocket has been at the forefront of social search – starting with blog searches and later expanding to social networking and microblogs,” says Blake Rhodes, IceRocket founder. “That’s why we’re thrilled about this acquisition and the potential to take social search to the next level. IceRocket’s integration with Meltwater Buzz will provide access to more sophisticated capabilities, such as measuring and analysing social engagement and influence. We’re excited for this next chapter.”
In addition to IceRocket, Meltwater acquired social CRM company JitterJam in March 2011 and BuzzGain last year. The company intends to acquire more businesses and technologies to help further expand its product suite.
About IceRocket
IceRocket, a privately owned and operated search engine, is a global leader in commercial search services on the Internet, providing new and more powerful ways for customers to find exactly what they are looking for. IceRocket is pioneering commercial search by putting the interests and wants of consumers before advertisers. The company has innovative blog search technology to search the blogosphere and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
About The Meltwater Group
The Meltwater Group is a privately held software company founded in Norway in 2001, serving more than 20,000 clients through 57 offices located across North America, South America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. Meltwater is committed to challenging existing business models by introducing disruptive technologies.​ The Meltwater Group delivers B2B solutions based on search engine technology, cloud computing and search engine marketing. For more information, please visit http://www.meltwater.com/.

Creating the most comprehensive and engaging social media intelligence platform on the market today / Meltwater buys IceRocket

Jorn Lyseggen

“The acquisition of IceRocket gives us access to one of the richest sources of social media in the market,” said Jorn Lyseggen, chief executive officer and founder of Meltwater Group

The Meltwater Group, one of the world’s leading online media intelligence companies, today announced the acquisition of IceRocket, a top social search engine. Together, the companies will provide public relations, marketing, communications and advertising professionals with the most comprehensive set of tools for monitoring, analysing and engaging in relevant conversations across social channels. All of IceRocket’s employees will join Meltwater.

Who will generate content in the future, how this will change the PR, marketing and publishing industries and how individuals will consume content? — NevilleHobson.com

Neville Hobson writes..

I was looking again at some of the video recordings of last week’s debate at the  British Library in London that I went to, organized by B2B  SaaS company Meltwater, and which addressed the topic of " The Future of Content."
The debate and subsequent Q&A session lasted two hours – you can watch the  complete-event video as if you were there – and was a worthwhile experience listening to the keynote address from  Richard Sambrook, Edelman’s Chief Content Officer (and a former Director of Global News at the BBC) and the panel members’ commentaries ably facilitated by panel chair  Matthew Gwyther, the editor of Management Today magazine.
And a stellar panel it was comprising  Jorn Lyseggen, founder and CEO of Meltwater (at left in the video still photo);  Francis Ingham, CEO, PRCA;  David Pugh, Managing Director, NLA (centre in the photo);  Helen Dunne, Editor of CorpComms Magazine; and  Lionel Bently (right in the photo), a specialist in intellectual property law and Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
How the debate was described set a pretty high expectation level:

The Future of Content will examine who will generate content in the future, how this will change the PR, marketing and publishing industries, how individuals will consume content and how/whether content could/will be monetized going forward.

89% of Internet users share online content on social networks, 93% use email and 82% use blogs | Meltwater Blog

Conversations around your brand are taking place (probably right now).


A recent study found 89% of Internet users share online content on social networks, 93% use email and 82% use blogs. Additionally, social networks were identified as the top method for sharing content with friends.

Listening to your social customers is important and can be beneficial to your company. Think of them like a free focus group; by monitoring conversations about your brand, you can see how people view your company, services or products.

The Future of Content Debate will examine who will generate content in the future, how this will change the PR, marketing and publishing industries / Speakers include Jorn Lyssegen - Meltwater CEO



Jorn Lyssegen - Meltwater CEO



The Future of Content Debate

Date  06 June 2011 Time19:00 - 21:00 Location The British Library, St Pancras 96, Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB

Overview

Keynote followed by panel debate examining the future of content

Description

The Future of Content will examine who will generate content in the future, how this will change the PR, marketing and publishing industries, how individuals will consume content and how/whether content could/will be monetised going forward. The Future of Content debate will be introduced by a keynote from Richard Sambrook (see below). Matthew Gwyther will then chair a panel discussion before inviting questions from the floor.

Keynote

Richard Sambrook, Global Vice Chairman/Chief Content Officer at Edelman (formerly the Director of BBC News and World Service)

Panel Chairman

Matthew Gwyther - editor of Management Today

Panelists:

•Jorn Lyssegen - Meltwater CEO

•Francis Ingham - PRCA CEO

•David Pugh - NLA managing director

•Helen Dunne - editor of CorpComms magazine

•Professor Bently - Professor of Law Cambridge (IP specialist)

To apply to attend: please contact richard.ellis@prca.org.uk

via prca.org.uk  

Dan Purvis Takes Charge of Global PR At Meltwater Group

Dan Purvis, Meltwater Group

Meltwater Group, the software company that provides a range of monitoring, marketing and social media services, has appointed Dan Purvis to lead global PR.

Purvis joins from UK firm Octopus Communications, where he led Meltwater’s UK PR account. He is charged with driving a global PR strategy that will improve Meltwater’s brand visibility and position the company as a leading software vendor.

“We’re right at the heart of some of the biggest and most topical debates going on across businesses of all sizes, in all sectors, in all countries – the future of online content,” Purvis told the Holmes Report. “From online news monitoring to social media monitoring and analysis, businesses are striving to come to terms with how to navigate the online minefield with its plethora of channels open to them. The trick is to then transform this ‘noise’ into a competitive advantage.”

Want to grow your business? / Meltwater Buzz, is specifically designed to provide a platform for advanced social media monitoring and analytics

"Meltwater Group, a global software company, recognises that businesses in all sectors and of all sizes are experiencing a number of social media growing pains and has developed tools for helping companies monitor what is being said about them in social media and then how to engage better with their clients and customers.

One of its services, Meltwater Buzz, is specifically designed to provide a platform for advanced social media monitoring and analytics. “We track content from the whole of the social web – essentially anywhere on the web where people can post comments, reviews, and share opinions and information.

In reality, that’s over 200 million (and counting!) blogs, forums and message boards, micro-blogs (such as Twitter), social networks (such as Facebook), review sites, video sites, and wikis,” says PR director Dan Purvis."

Research suggests that companies that have embraced social media are more likely to have seen their turnover and headcount grow than those that haven’t. Consumer-facing businesses, notably retailers and entertainment groups, have been particularly quick to see the benefits of being able to contact their customers more regularly and more intimately than was previously the case.

This is just as well, since it is clear that traditional, officially supported networks for smaller businesses appear to have little appeal or effect. Fewer than a quarter (21.7 per cent) of the UK’s business owners surveyed by the information technology company Sage Group for its new business index thought the Government was doing enough to provide sufficient support andadvice for those starting a business, while only 14 per cent viewed business information and advice made available by the Government as something they would particularly rely on. Past experience suggests that recent changes to Business Link – though they might make the service less confusing – are likely to have little effect.

Meltwater Group has been certified by the CRF Institute as one of Britain’s Top Employers for 2011 / Meltwater Buzz

London, 4th April – Meltwater Group, one of the world’s leading Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, has been certified by the CRF Institute as one of Britain’s Top Employers for 2011, awarding the organisation for its efforts in meeting the highest standards of HR.

Identifying Meltwater as front-runners in HR management, the company has been recognised for providing organisations with sharp, fresh insight into their markets and customers. Scoring highly in Career Development, Company Culture and Training & Development, Meltwater is proud of its commitment to its employees, developing and nurturing a pool of talent that is hard-working and ethical, with a strong entrepreneurial flair. 

The certification is based on independent research done by the CRF Institute and audited by Grant Thornton that shows that Meltwater has outstanding HR policies and offers an excellent working environment.

Fifty-eight organisations which were certified in this year’s Britain’s Top Employers project and companies were judged on the basis of their scores in the following HR-related areas: Primary Benefits, Secondary Benefits & Working Conditions, Training and Development, Career Development, and Company Culture.